Posted on 05/27/2020 5:39:38 AM PDT by george76
The mask is essentially useless: The mask is not an adequate defense against the COVID-19 virus... The virus checks in at somewhere between 0.06 and 0.14 microns, meaning it’s too small for any commercially available mask to effectively filter it out. The pores on an N95 mask, which are the best masks you’re reasonably going to find, and the vast, vast majority of you are not going to have N95 masks but rather cloth masks, which perform far less well, are 0.3 microns
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Staten Island a mob of “karens” forced a woman from a store for not wearing a mask and they were not at all polite about it; they were vicious. This is all the end result of the wholly unnecessary lockdown of the American economy which was based on fallacious “science” from the outset. It is the distillation of the cultural divide. We are a nation split between the fearful, those easily frightened by anything they read in the mainstream media, and the not-by-nature fearful who are justifiably suspicious of the nonsense spewed forth by the mainstream media
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a carefully-constructed hoax, a treasonous attempt to overthrow a duly elected President in order to cover up their many crimes .
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Heroes of the left, Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have been wrong, wrong, wrong. Long ago the great Thomas Sowell wrote that “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
The lockdown was never needed. The hospitals were never overrun, the mortality rate has been a fraction of what the “scientists” predicted. The “data” has all been corrupted.
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two types of people .. “karens” and “sharons.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Just like MAGA hats.
I haven’t heard the term “Sharon” before and the article makes no attempt to explain it (although it’s obviously the opposite of the currently trendy “Karen”).
Masks are the new hijab/burqa. men get to submit too.
I shopped two stores yesterday and conveniently forgot my mask. No one said a word.
When I do have one, it’s a TRUMP 2020 mask
I never heard of ‘Karens’ until last week and this is the first I’ve ever heard of ‘Sharons’. OK, I finally understand what a Karen is, but what is a ‘Sharon’?
Yesterday I was helping a restaurant manager arrange his tables to comply with Arizona’s “social distancing” order. I was wearing a mask, as it is our company policy when dealing with customers. I also wear one when I go to the Wall Mart or local grocery store.
Anyway, this older woman walks up and says to us, after bantering about the ridiculous rules, “That’s ok, I understand.. You’re just sheep, following other sheep off the cliff”
I bet we vote for the same people. Enough already. I’m not curtailing anyone’s freedoms by wearing the mask. I don’t tell her what to do, I don’t tell anyone what to do except my employees - and I’m not about to tell them to violate our company policy for 10 seconds of superiority.
I’ve heard the micron measurements over and over. I know a stupid mask doesn’t filter out Covid virus, but I do think it limits the droplets of our breath from traveling too far. It reduces the viral load.
You can agree or disagree. It’s ok. But I think our side is quickly becoming the Karen’s we all hate so much. You do you. Don’t call me a godamned sheep. Karen!
It looks like there has been a national breakdown in the ability to think in this country, typified by the almost ceaseless mentioning of “karens.” It is everywhere, you can’t get away from it. People who previously wrote articles and columns in an attempt to persuade and inform now use that platform merely as a decorative excuse to explore the “karen” meme. It is tiresome. Hopefully, it will blow over soon.
I tend to agree with them.
Wrong article.
The virus is submicron, yes, but spewing coughing sneezing lickspittle saliva stews are hundreds of microns.
PS , I do this type of work for a living.
Good points. Part of my approach to life is not to give other people a hard time. I respect businesses and I respect the rules of a business (or shop elsewhere). I don’t like a lot of rules from my government — but I can take that up with them, and I can vote.
I think Conservatives make a mistake when we try to shame people on the mask issue. It just perpetuates the game we’re trying not to play.
“This is a health care issue...not a political one.”
To the Left everything is political.
Everything.
Hence my tagline.
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So, when do you believe you will stop wearing a mask? Will droplets ever cease expelling from orafices?
So, did you wear a mask before the C-19 virus outbreak? If not, why not?
KAREN
Mandated masks put folks with allergies, asthma, COPD, and other breathing issues at risk ..
Durango, Co :: Children younger than 3 do not have to wear the masks, nor do people who are unable to wear masks because of health conditions or disabilities.
Banks and other businesses can ask people to remove masks for security or identification purposes.
Masks are not required on federal, state or county land.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3847877/posts
Then as you must surely know, "[c]oughing sneezing lickspittle saliva stews" are better controlled with a handkerchief than with an ill-fitting, improperly worn and maintained identity-hiding face mask.
Better still, if you're discharging "[c]oughing sneezing lickspittle saliva stews" your ass better stay home until you are well ... wouldn't you agree? Cheers!
When I see our state numbers finally dropping instead of rising. As it stands, Arizona is (correctly or incorrectly) looking at another 1000 deaths, give or take.
When I see that not bearing out, the mask will be in the trash.
One thing I’m frequently reminded of is Japan. Arizona has roughly the same numbers. That’s 126 million vs. 7.5 million, and we have the same deaths. What do they do, almost religiously? Masks, even when there is no virus going around.
Why not? I can understand not wearing one at the diner, but when it’s practical. I don’t think it should be made into a political statement.
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